It's hard for me to dislike a book that says George Bush is one of the worst presidents ever, David Brooks is easy to mock for his faux intellectualism, Bill O'Reilly is a boor and contributes negatively to thought in the USA, and other such items I whole heartily agree with, but the book is an anac...
There's a LOT of good material in this for freethinkers interested in our history. And, more important for a popular history, this is a good explanation of why secularism is vital to the survival of the nation established in North America in 1787. But there's a very substantial lack of coverage of...
The Age of American Unreason is another road-trip audio CD adventure so I couldn't take notes, I got distracted on occasion, and I can't review the text as I write this. Consequently, this review will be brief (perhaps blessedly so) and lacking in much detail but, for what it's worth, here it is:Jac...
Heard a brief review of this on Slate. Jacoby defines the development of the Cold War through the battle between Hiss and Chambers
A scathing and all too accurate look at the culture of anti-intellectualism that abounds in contemporary America.
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